Daniel Sheldon Norton

Daniel Sheldon Norton (12 April 1829-13 July 1870) was a US Senator from Minnesota (R) from 4 March 1865 to 13 July 1870, succeeding Morton S. Wilkinson and preceding William Windom.

Biography
Daniel Sheldon Norton was born in Mount Vernon, Ohio in 1829, the brother of Anthony Banning Norton. He served in the US Army during the Mexican-American War, and he later moved to California and Nicaragua. Norton eventually settled in Winona, Minnesota, and he served in the State Senate from 1857 to 1859, from 1861 to 1862, and from 1864 to 1866, and he went on to serve in the US Senate from 1865 to 1870. He supported President Andrew Johnson's stance on Reconstruction and opposed his impeachment, and he died in office in 1870.